LibGuides: Operating Department Practice: Other Resources

Websites

National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Essential website - for NICE Guidance, Standards, Life Sciences (health technologies) etc.
Department of Health & Social Care
UK government website, including news, publications, policies and statistics.
WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and Implementation Manual
World Health Organisation safety checklist for operating rooms.
Anaesthesia UK
Educational site with training resources for anaesthetic professionals
Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP) Standards and Guidence
Standards and guidance on best practice for all working in UK operating departments.
College of Operating Department Practitioners
Professional organisation providing help and advice for ODPs.
Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC)
The HCPC are a regulatory body for health and care professionals.
Institute of Decontamination Sciences
IDSc is the UK's professional body for the decontamination of reusable medical devices.

Overton
World’s largest searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications and working papers.

Constituency data: How healthy is your area?
An easy to use dashboard from the House of Commons Library displaying data on common health conditions collected from GP practices in England.
Department of Health & Social Care Statistics
These statistics are used to inform debate, decision making and research both within government and by the wider community.
Health Profiles
Health statistics by area, region and England as a whole. Also known as 'Fingertips'.
Hospital Episode Statistics
Contains statistical information about diagnoses and operations, information about patients such as age, gender and ethnicity, time waited and date of admission
NHS England statistics
NHS England publishes statistics on a range of health and care subjects. These statistics are used to inform debate, decision-making and research both within government and by the wider community.
NHS Digital
Data and information from across the health and social care system in England.
UK National Statistics Publication Hub
Official UK Government statistics, searchable by theme or keywords.

Statista is an international statistics platform covering a wide range of topics.

Statista
A vast source of worldwide statistical information covering a variety of topics. Market research and business intelligence.

ARRO
Access research from Anglia Ruskin University
CORE - COnnecting REpostories
Search millions of open access content from repositories worldwide.
DART-Europe
E-theses portal to research published in Europe
EBSCO Open Dissertations
Search engine for PhD dissertations. Links to records in Ethos or institutions' repository where dissertations can be downloaded for free.

Ethos is currently unavailable due to the cyber attack on the British Library.

OATD - Open Access Theses and Dissertations
Aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
OpenDOAR
PQDT Open
Open access MA and PhD thesis and dissertations.

Archives Hub (Mimas)
Find unique sources for your research from the archives of over 250 institutions across the UK.
British Library Search
Search catalogue and website, over 57 million records
Library Hub
Search the catalogues of over 200 UK academic and specialist libraries.
Search25
Search university libraries based in the South East of England
WorldCat
Search global libraries
Using other Libraries
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